Did the forum get hacked?

[PotomacCyclist]

Farmville bikes

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[I’ve never played the game. I just found these today.]

[dplasters]

@cvcalhoun 126352 wrote:

Fortunately, there is no such person. The first three numbers are issued based on the geographical area where the Social Security number is issued, and 123 is not assigned. Yep, I’m the kind of nerd who knows such things.

I used to have fun being able to tell where people were born/immigrated in with that little fact, sadly they did away with it in 2011. So don’t try to pull it on whatever generation comes after millennials, it won’t work.

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

historical fun for those interested

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/stateweb.htm

[mstone]

@dplasters 126380 wrote:

I used to have fun being able to tell where people were born/immigrated in with that little fact, sadly they did away with it in 2011.

What they should have done was scrapped the system. Here’s to half measures!

[Tim Kelley]

It’s been taken care of. Looks like it might be an issue with the Tapatalk plugin. Our web host is running a malware scan.

[dasgeh]

@PotomacCyclist 126372 wrote:

Farmville bikes
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I wonder want Steve O thinks about barrels of wine blocking the bike path…

[Steve O]

@dasgeh 126391 wrote:

I wonder what Steve O thinks about barrels of wine blocking the bike path…

It’s the lack of reflective markings that troubles me.

On another note, I have actually visited Farmville, VA. An old HS friend was a professor at Hampden Sydney College for a while, which is just outside of Farmville.

[PotomacCyclist]

@dasgeh 126391 wrote:

I wonder want Steve O thinks about barrels of wine blocking the bike path…

Good for cyclocross practice.

If you can jump over a barrel, then you should be ready for a measly old 1-ft barrier.

But if you try and fall, would you be going over a barrel and falling? (Instead of going over the Falls in a barrel? Sorry.)

[cvcalhoun]

@Tim Kelley 126389 wrote:

It’s been taken care of. Looks like it might be an issue with the Tapatalk plugin. Our web host is running a malware scan.

Thanks, Tim! I’m feeling a lot more secure that I won’t get a bunch of malware here.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@PotomacCyclist 126429 wrote:

Good for cyclocross practice.

If you can jump over a barrel, then you should be ready for a measly old 1-ft barrier.

But if you try and fall, would you be going over a barrel and falling? (Instead of going over the Falls in a barrel? Sorry.)

Not a single Donkey Kong reference. D-.

[PotomacCyclist]

For some reason, I never really liked Donkey Kong. I used to play Galaga, Space Invaders, Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede, but rarely Donkey Kong.

[Tim Kelley]

Turns out it was a Turkish hacker who compromised the web host’s admin account. We should be back to normal now, but if you see anything out of place please let us know!

[cvcalhoun]

@Tim Kelley 126485 wrote:

Turns out it was a Turkish hacker who compromised the web host’s admin account. We should be back to normal now, but if you see anything out of place please let us know!

Glad you figured it out! One thing I have found (and I run a website of my own) is that you vastly improve security if both the username and password are nonobvious. For example, my nick here is based on my real name. But using that nick as my username on my website would make it far too easy for a hacker to gain entry with a brute force password-guessing script. If both the username and the password are a random collection of letters and numbers, that is much harder.

Obviously, I don’t know the username for the admin panel of this forum. And not being a hacker, I won’t attempt to guess. But it may be something to consider if you haven’t already.

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